In the R package, we’ve attached two example datasets from a large drug combination screening experiment on diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. We’ll use these to show some simple use cases of the main functions and how to interpret the results.
Let’s load in the first example and have a look at it
library(bayesynergy)
data("mathews_DLBCL")
y = mathews_DLBCL[[1]][[1]]
x = mathews_DLBCL[[1]][[2]]
head(cbind(y,x))## Viability ibrutinib ispinesib
## [1,] 1.2295618 0.0000 0
## [2,] 1.0376006 0.1954 0
## [3,] 1.1813851 0.7812 0
## [4,] 0.5882688 3.1250 0
## [5,] 0.4666700 12.5000 0
## [6,] 0.2869514 50.0000 0
We see that the the measured viability scores are stored in the
vector y, while x is a matrix with two columns
giving the corresponding concentrations where the viability scores were
read off.
Fitting the regression model is simple enough, and can be done on default settings simply by running the following code (where we add the names of the drugs involved, the concentration units for plotting purposes, and calculate the bayes factor).
fit = bayesynergy(y,x, drug_names = c("ibrutinib", "ispinesib"),
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## Calculating the Bayes factor
The resulting model can be summarised by running
summary(fit)## mean se_mean sd 2.5% 50% 97.5% n_eff Rhat
## la_1[1] 0.3364 0.001451 0.0698 1.70e-01 3.46e-01 0.451 2315 1.001
## la_2[1] 0.3747 0.009895 0.0901 3.53e-02 3.96e-01 0.456 83 1.036
## log10_ec50_1 0.4739 0.003236 0.1498 2.46e-01 4.45e-01 0.837 2142 1.002
## log10_ec50_2 -1.0422 0.018874 0.9771 -3.21e+00 -9.20e-01 0.485 2680 1.001
## slope_1 2.0326 0.016696 0.9064 9.12e-01 1.81e+00 4.365 2947 1.000
## slope_2 1.4275 0.039567 1.1476 5.92e-02 1.16e+00 4.286 841 1.006
## ell 3.0534 0.030429 1.5102 1.26e+00 2.72e+00 6.884 2463 1.000
## sigma_f 0.8050 0.014937 0.7859 1.67e-01 5.82e-01 2.778 2769 1.000
## s 0.0971 0.000304 0.0150 7.26e-02 9.52e-02 0.132 2448 0.999
## dss_1 33.5756 0.043330 2.9606 2.76e+01 3.36e+01 39.480 4669 1.000
## dss_2 59.2931 0.051533 2.7395 5.36e+01 5.94e+01 64.490 2826 1.002
## rVUS_f 82.7355 0.013679 0.8862 8.09e+01 8.28e+01 84.436 4197 1.000
## rVUS_p0 72.9829 0.037589 2.1723 6.86e+01 7.30e+01 77.107 3340 1.000
## VUS_Delta -9.7526 0.040124 2.3431 -1.45e+01 -9.67e+00 -5.288 3410 1.000
## VUS_syn -9.7945 0.039432 2.3045 -1.45e+01 -9.69e+00 -5.420 3416 1.000
## VUS_ant 0.0419 0.001836 0.1053 5.07e-06 8.11e-05 0.340 3292 1.000
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## log-Pseudo Marginal Likelihood (LPML) = 52.0628
## Estimated Bayes factor in favor of full model over non-interaction only model: 35.02581
which gives posterior summaries of the parameters of the model.
In addition, the model calculates summary statistics of the
monotherapy curves and the dose-response surface including drug
sensitivity scores (DSS) for the two drugs in question, as well as the
volumes that capture the notion of efficacy (rVUS_f),
interaction (VUS_Delta), synergy (VUS_syn) and
interaction (VUS_ant).
As indicated, the total combined drug efficacy is around 80%
(rVUS_f), of which around 70 percentage points can be
attributed to \(p_0\)
(rVUS_p0), leaving room for 10 percentage points worth of
synergy (VUS_syn). We can also note that the model is
fairly certain of this effect, with a 95% credible interval given as
(-14.493, -5.42). The certainty of this is also verified by the Bayes
factor, which at 35.03 indicates strong evidence of an interaction
effect present in the model.
We can also create plots by simply running
plot(fit, plot3D = F)which produces monotherapy curves, monotherapy summary statistics, 2D contour plots of the dose-response function \(f\), the non-interaction assumption \(p_0\) and the interaction \(\Delta\). The last plot displays the \(rVUS\) scores as discussed previously, with corresponding uncertainty.
The package can also generate 3D interactive plots by setting
plot3D = T. These are displayed as following using the
plotly library (Plotly Technologies Inc.
(2015)).